Nicolas Bourbaki was a pseudonym for a group of young French mathematicians who forever change Math, and later Computer Science.
This TED Talk explained that prior teachers did not recognize patterns to math formula, so this group wrote papers and textbooks on this topic.
Years later, the concept of reconciling patterns into various different types of formulas and algorithms is a major part of software engineering. I find it fascinating that these young mathematicians were not complaining that the older generation was not being flexible, but that they were not being organized enough.
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